HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081038740
Bassin de Dawa
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 5 administrative regions across 3 countries : Afder, Beled Xaawo, Dolow, Liben, Mandera East
Sub-basin area
1 421,8km²
Upstream area
60 316,3km²
Discharge
144,6m³/s
Mean elev.
343m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Dawa479 km²
- Bassin de Dawa28 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 945.7 km²66.8% of basin
- 289.5 km²20.5% of basin
- 131.6 km²9.3% of basin
- 35.6 km²2.5% of basin
- 13.1 km²0.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
116 distinct species · 172 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,4°C
Annual rain
282mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
18mm/an
PET
2 213mm
AET
235mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
481cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)